Terms & Conditions | Northcoders

General Terms & Conditions

Introduction
1. These terms and conditions govern your use of our website.
2. By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.
3. If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.
4. You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; and by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.
5. Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy and cookies policy.
Copyright Notice
1. Copyright (c) 2016 Northcoders Limited.
2. Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:
  1. 1. we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and
    2. all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
Licence to use website
1. You may, subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions:
  1. view pages from our website in a web browser;
  2. download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
  3. print pages from our website;
  4. stream audio and video files from our website; and
  5. use our website services by means of a web browser.
2. Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
3. You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.
4. Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
5. Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:
  1. republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
  2. sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;
  3. show any material from our website in public;
  4. reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or
  5. redistribute material from our website
6. Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.
7. We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.
Acceptable Use
1. You must not:
  1. 1. use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;
    2. use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
    3. use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
    4. conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
    5. access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means;
      violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or
    6. use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).
  2. You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.
  3. You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.
Your content: licence
1. In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.
2. You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 8.2.
3. You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 8.2.
4. You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
5. Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.
Your content: rules
1. You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.
2. Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).
3. Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:
  1. be libellous or maliciously false;
  2. be obscene or indecent;
  3. infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;
  4. infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;
  5. constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
  6. constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;
  7. be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;
  8. be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
  9. be blasphemous;
  10. be in breach of official secrets legislation;
  11. be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;
  12. depict violence, in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
  13. be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
  14. be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
  15. consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
  16. constitute spam;
  17. cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.
Limited warranties
1. 1. We do not warrant or represent:
    1. the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
    2. that the material on the website is up to date; or
    3. that the website or any service on the website will remain available.
  2. We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent that these terms and conditions expressly provide otherwise, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.
  3. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 11.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.
Limitations and exclusions of liability
1. 1. Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
    1. limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
    2. limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
    3. limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
    4. exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
  2. The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 11 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
    1. are subject to Section 11.1; and;
    2. govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty.
  3. To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
  4. We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
  5. We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.
  6. We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
  7. We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.
  8. You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
Breaches of these terms and conditions
1. Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:
  1. 1. send you one or more formal warnings;
    2. temporarily suspend your access to our website;
    3. permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;
    4. block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;
    5. contact any or all your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;
    6. commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
    7. suspend or delete your account on our website.
2. Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).
Variation
1. We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.
2. The revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date of their publication on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of the terms and conditions.
Assignment
1. You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
2. You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
Severability
1. If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
2. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Third party rights
1. These terms and conditions are for our benefit and your benefit, and are not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
2. The exercise of the parties’ rights under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
Entire agreement
1. Subject to Section 11.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.
Law and jurisdiction
1. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
2. Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.
Our details
1. This website is owned and operated by Northcoders Limited.
2. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 09912193, and our registered office is at BLOC, 17 Marble St, Manchester M2 3AW.
3. Our principal place of business is at BLOC, 17 Marble St, Manchester M2 3AW.
4. You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website contact form, by email to [email protected] or by telephone on 0333 050 4368.

Student Terms & Conditions

INFORMATION ABOUT US AND THESE TERMS

These are the terms and conditions for Northcoders Limited. They set out the basis on which we make available our technology bootcamps for our prospective students.

We are a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 09912193. Our registered office address is at Manchester Technology Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester, England, M1 7ED.

Please read these terms and conditions carefully before you apply for one of our courses. We may amend these terms (and any of our policies referred to in them) from time to time to reflect updates to our courses.

These Terms and the documents and policies referred to in them establish a legally binding agreement between you and us in connection with your proposed or actual enrolment on one of our Courses.

We can be contacted in connection with these Terms at our registered office address or otherwise by email at [email protected]. Routine contact in connection with your Course will take place with your tutor, whose contact details shall be provided to you via the Slack System once you have enrolled on the Course.

Your special attention is drawn to clauses 6, 7, 8, 14, 16 and 19 of these Terms.

USE OF DEFINED TERMS
1. From this point onwards, these terms and conditions make use of the following defined terms:

Application	your application to study on one of our Courses;
Code of Ethics	means our code of ethics policy, which can be found at https://northcoders.com/code-of-ethics. This may be updated from time to time by us;
Contract	the legally binding contract between you and us relating to your enrolment on the Course;
Course / Courses	the technology bootcamp courses that we make available for prospective students from time-to-time, which shall be as initially referred to on our Website, one of which may be subject to your Application;
Course Fees	the course fees that you are required to pay in order to enrol on one of our Courses;
Course Materials	any documentation, literature, materials, technology (including, without limitation, software and associated products) we make available to you throughout the Course;

Curriculum	the curriculum for our Courses, which is available via the Website or otherwise on request;
events outside of our control	has the meaning given to it in clause 15.1;
Entry Challenge Discovery Call Technical Discussion	an entry challenge which shall comprise a technical exercise followed by a discussion with our team, the purpose of which is to determine your suitability for enrolment on the Course; a discussion with our team, the purpose of which is to assess your current level of understanding of programming, and advise on the best course of action to prepare for the Course; a discussion which shall comprise of working through a technical exercise with our team, followed by a discussion, the purpose of which is to determine your suitability for enrolment on the Course;
Initial Learning Activities	has the meaning given to it in clause 9.1
Intellectual Property Rights	patents, utility models, rights to inventions, copyright and neighbouring and related rights, moral rights, trade marks and service marks, business names and domain names, rights in get-up and trade dress, goodwill and the right to sue for passing off or unfair competition, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, rights to use, and protect the confidentiality of, Confidential Information (including know-how and trade secrets) and all other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications and rights to apply for and be granted, renewals or extensions of, and rights to claim priority from, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.
Northcoders/we/us/our	Northcoders Limited;
Offer Letter	the letter from us to you which sets out our offer to enrol you on one of our Courses in accordance with these Terms;
Slack System	our internal communications system, via which we will communicate with you in connection with your Course;
Start Date	the date on which your Course will start, as set out in the Offer Letter;
Statutory Cancellation Period	has the meaning given to it in clause 8.1;
Terms	these terms and conditions, which may be amended from time-to-time in accordance with clause 20.3;
VAT	value added tax or equivalent sales tax that is chargeable in the UK;
Website	https://northcoders.com and such other domain(s) and/or platform(s) that we may operate from time-to-time in connection with our Courses.

These Terms incorporate the following rules of interpretation:
1. The Schedules form part of these Terms and a reference to a Schedule is to a Schedule of these Terms.
2. Unless the context otherwise requires, words in the singular include the plural and in the plural include the singular.
3. A reference to legislation or a legislative provision is a reference to it as amended, extended or re-enacted from time to time and includes all subordinate legislation made from time to time under that legislation or legislative provision.
4. A reference to writing or written excludes fax but not email.
5. Where these Terms refer to the Contract that reference is to the Contract formed between you and us following your acceptance of an Offer Letter in accordance with clause 6.

1. OUR COURSES

Our Courses are described on our Website.

The Course Fees that you shall be required to pay depend on the Course that you enrol on.

ELIGIBILITY TO STUDY
1. You are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to study in the United Kingdom and, where required, that you have a valid visa in place. You can find out more information about visas at: https://www.gov.uk/student-visa.
2. We may require that you produce valid documentation that shows your address (such as, for example, a utility bill, passport or driving licence) and proof of immigration status when completing your Application. We will notify you where this is required.
3. If we agree to enrol you on one of our Courses, you agree that you will be required to:
  1. obtain and use your own PPE (personal protective equipment);
  2. ensure that you have headphones and personal computing equipment (laptop/desktop) which will permit you to stream online lectures;
  3. provide your own computer for the duration of the Course (which should have 8gb of RAM, an Intel Core i5 process or equivalent, with a 256 GB hard drive disk, and either an inbuilt or external webcam, or such other operating requirements as we may notify to you). If you are using MacOS (on an Apple computer), some software for our Courses is only compatible with recent versions, so you should ensure that your operating systems are updated before you enrol on the Course. You can read more about this here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlpx1065/mac. If you are using a virtual machine for the course, you may have reduced resources; and
  4. ensure that you can work comfortably on your computer in accordance with applicable standards relating to posture and health.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
1. Where you wish to study on one of our Courses you must complete an Application, which is available via the Website.
2. You must provide the following information in your Application:
  1. full name;
  2. preferred pronouns;
  3. email address;
  4. residential address;
  5. mobile number;
  6. ethnic origin;
  7. any special educational needs and disabilities (SENDs); and
  8. your preferred Course; and

together with such additional information that we may request from you in connection with your Application.

Where, following our review of your Application, we consider that you may be suitable for enrolment on the Course, we may invite you to complete an Entry Challenge, or Discovery Call and Technical Discussion, the content and forum of which will be communicated to you in advance.
We may refuse to enrol you on a Course where we consider that you are not suitable for it. By way of example only, the reasons why we may refuse enrolment on a Course include:
1. you do not display enough technical knowledge or abilities during the Entry Challenge or Technical Discussion;
2. you are unable to explain your answers during the Entry Challenge or Technical Discussion;
3. in our reasonable opinion, you have cheated on the Entry Challenge or Technical Discussion;
4. you fail to demonstrate an expected level of commitment to your Course;
5. you fail to demonstrate an expected level of communication in order to complete your Course;
6. you display a poor and/or negative attitude during the Entry Challenge, Discovery Call or Technical Discussion;
7. if you represent that you are a Department for Education funded student and the Department for Education fails to provide funding; and
8. you act in breach of our Code of Ethics,

however, we reserve the right to refuse enrolment on our Courses for any reason whatsoever at our absolute discretion.

In determining that you are not suitable for enrolment on a Course we may, at our discretion:
1. recommend the completion of additional courses or learning (whether provided by us or by third parties) prior to enrolling on the Course;
2. delay your enrolment on the Course until such time as we may determine, in our sole discretion, that you are suitable to begin the Course; or
3. reject your Application.

OFFERS AND ENROLMENT – SPECIAL ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THIS CLAUSE
1. Where, following our review of your Application and your completion of the Entry Challenge, or Discovery Call and Technical Discussion, we consider that you are suitable for enrolment on your desired Course, we may offer to enrol you on the Course by sending you an Offer Letter.
2. Your Offer Letter will contain the following information:
  1. the Course name;
  2. the Start Date;
  3. instructions on how to secure your place on the Course;
  4. the deadline to secure your place on the Course; and
  5. Entry Challenge or Technical Discussion feedback,

together with such additional information that we consider is relevant in connection with the Course.

The Offer Letter constitutes a contractual offer from us to you in connection with your enrolment on the Course in accordance with the terms of that Offer Letter and these Terms.
You can accept the Offer Letter by signing and returning it to us (by email or post) or otherwise by communicating your acceptance of it (and these Terms) to us. Once an Offer Letter has been accepted by you, a legally binding Contract between you and us will be formed on the basis of these Terms and any additional information set out in our Offer Letter.
Where there is any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of the Offer Letter and these Terms, the provisions of the Offer Letter shall prevail to the extent of such conflict or inconsistency.

COURSE FEES – SPECIAL ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THIS CLAUSE
1. Our Course Fees are initially referred to on our Website and shall be confirmed in the Offer Letter.
2. Your payment obligations towards us depend on whether you are:
  1. a private, fee-paying, student;
  2. being sponsored to complete the Course by a third-party; or
  3. enrolling on the Course in connection with a scholarship that has been funded by the Department for Education.

Private Students

You will become responsible for paying the full Course Fees immediately on acceptance of the Offer Letter and must be paid in accordance with the payment terms set out in the Offer Letter.